Kevins Law

Ground Turkey Recall Shows We Still Need Kevin's Law

Barbara Kowalcyk | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Cargill, Foodborne Illness, Food Poisoning, Kevin's Law, E. Coli, Food-Borne Diseases, Food News
Barbara Kowalcyk

Currently, the USDA tests meat and poultry products for Salmonella and has limits in place for how much Salmonella can be in any particular testing sample of meat. But the limits are woefully inadequate, and they aren't enforceable anyway.

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Food Safety Law Makes History

Barbara Kowalcyk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Safety, Barbara-Kowalcyk, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food Safety Bill, Kevin's Law, Fda, Food News
Barbara Kowalcyk

The law contains key elements of Kevin's Law, named in memory of our son who died in 2001.

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HuffPost's Greatest Person Of The Day: Barbara Kowalcyk, Food Safety Advocate

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Foodborne Illness, FDA Recall, Kevin's Law, Food Inc., Barbara Kowalcyk, Greatest Person of the Day, Food Safety, Children's Health, E. Coli, US News, Impact of Eating Meat, Center for Food Safety, Video, Impact News

Every day on HuffPost, we're highlighting one 'Greatest Person'- an exceptional individual who is confronting the country's economic and political cri...

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NYS Senate voted today to not help mentally ill, not keep public safer and not save money

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Psychiatry, New York State, Mental Health, New York State Senate, New York, Schizophrenia, Laura's Law, Depression, Crime, Bipolar, Involuntary Treatment, Kendra Webdale, Kevin's Law, Involuntary Commitment, Kendra's Law, Forensics, Hospitals, Prisons, NYS Budget, New York News
DJ Jaffe

As part of the budget non-process, the NYS Senate today voted not to make Kendra's Law permanent and not to improve it. That means they voted not to h...

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Ten Minutes with: Food, Inc.'s Robert Kenner

Fabio Periera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barb-Kowalcyk, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Kenner, Kevin's Law, Food Inc., Supermarket News, Detroit, Industrial Food, Mcdonalds, Entertainment News
Fabio Periera

What's in your hamburger? Having beaten out Michael Jackson's: This is It in DVD sales on Amazon.com, the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc. garne...

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I Saw Food, Inc. Now What?

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Sustainable Table, Michael Pollan, Barb Kowlacyk, Hungry for Change, Kevin's Law, Food Inc., Eat Well Guide, Food, Organic Consumers ASsociation, Inc. Twitter, Takepart, Facebook, Spinnio, Eatwild, Green News
Sarah Newman

There's a lot of simple but highly effective things you can do to transition off of a corn-based diet, lessen your carb(on) food/footprint, support local farmers and choose humanely raised meats.

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